Hi,

You can also create a pivot table. Drag the column (containing a,b,c etc.)
to the row area and then again to the data area

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Regards,

Ashish Mathur
Microsoft Excel MVP
www.ashishmathur.com

"mlkkrs" wrote in message
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I am attempting to count how many a's, b's, c's, d's etc are in a column.
How
do I get stated doing this? Any help is well appreciated.

Thank you